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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (48944)	6/18/2006 1:05:23 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

Yes. Article one, Section 10 of the Constitution of the United Staes of America. "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. And as Thomas Jefferson said: "I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender." Now the assertion about money came up in a speech I posted. I am certainly not obligated to defend every detail in opinions voiced by another, nor am I obligated to agree with everything asserted by another. My reason for posting was to generalize the known fact that governments are all criminal in terms of having removed a value basis for their coinage and their paper. This includes Canada just as much as any other country. Is 371 1/4 grains of silver worth a dollar??